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Over the Pení pass to Dalí’s village, the one road in and the one road out
Cadaqués is the furthest coastal village we drive to regularly and the most isolated. There is one road in — the GI-614 over the Serra de Rodes from Roses — and it climbs and twists for the last twenty minutes over the Pení pass before dropping into the bay. That road is the reason the village never got developed, and the reason a transfer here needs a driver who has done it before.
The whole journey is about two and a quarter hours: AP-7 north past Girona and Figueres, then the C-260 to Roses and up over the pass. There is no railway. The bus from Barcelona takes the best part of three hours and runs a handful of times a day, so if you land in the evening a car is usually the only way to arrive the same night.
Portlligat, where Dalí’s house stands, is a fifteen-minute walk or a two-minute drive north of the village — we can drop you there directly. Parking inside Cadaqués is genuinely difficult in summer, which is one reason a lot of visitors who have driven it once choose to be driven the next time.
About two hours fifteen minutes for 175 km, including the mountain road over the Pení pass at the end.
No. The nearest station is Figueres, and you would still need a bus or taxi for the final 40 km over the pass.
Yes with a driver who knows it. It is narrow and winding, so it is not a road to attempt for the first time in the dark in a hire car.
Yes, we can drop directly at Portlligat, which is a couple of minutes beyond the village.
Yes, both are on the same route and quoted separately at a lower fare since they are before the pass.
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